The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-07-07
GOSSIP FROM GREEssnono.
a Breezy Batch of News fropn the .sCity
of Flowers


Special Coyrespondence of The Sentinel
GREENSBORO, July ITO day is "the
| glorious fourth" but if you were here YOU
would never know ii as Greensboro has
either got other fish to fry or else there
are too many nnreconstructed rebels here to
get up much of hurrah over the glorious
republic. and | guess 1t must be the latter
Tor Greensboro never did have Fourth
OF July" to my recollection, but always picks
herself up and goes off out of town to some
body else's pow-wow, and the result is our
city annals have nothing to show from year
to year but an inglorious blank between the
3rd and 9TH of the month. We generally
send you good delegation to Winston on
this occasion and you ought to have had
your reputation program this year for our
especial accommodation, as "a good many of
our people wanted to go, several having
asked me if you We're going to have any
demonstration up there. As it is all our
patriotic dynamite will be let off at Ger
manton to day, to which place an ex cursion
goes this morning, carrying the Greensboro
Cornet Band, a battalion of orators, etc.
The metropolitan airs that this town is
putting on just at present are something
sublime to look upon. Somehow it has got
ten out and is floating around in the atmos.
phere that there is
BIG FUTURE FOR GREENSBORO
just ahead, and in fact all the evidence GER
tainly points that way. New people are
coming here, the pro. uction is increasing,
real estate is approaching, there are no va
cant stores or dwellings here, building is
going on on more extensive scale than
ever before, Railroad facilities already of
the best are increasing, the attention of peo-
pie and of the press at distance is now
turned toward the place more than ever
before, We have city board of twelve al
dermen who understand their business and
We are putting on city style accordingly.
For instance, we passed an ordinance the
other day prohibiting brass bands from
playing on the street without a special per-
NIT from the Mayor, two or three runaways
having been caused by two colored bands
discoursing melody on the street at the same
time.
Our electric light poles and wires are all
up, some of the lights are already prepared
and by the last of this week the town will
be ablaze with electric lights
THE TOBACCO CONVENTION
held here Saturday to decide upon "a time
and place for State Convention of the To-
bacconists of North Carolina was attended
by a good crowd, delegates being present
from Raleigh, Durham, HENDERSON, Reds
vile and other points. The convention de-
cided upon Morehead City as the place for
the State Convention, and August 18th as
the time.
Greensboro has military company with
"a men on the roll and Mr. r. d. Williams
as Captain. They expect to have guns and
uniforms at an early date
THE FIVE CENT SAVINGS BANK
opened here Saturday morning at o'clock
and the deposits of the day amounted to
over $4,000, which is ahead of Raleigh.
Mrs Nellie S. Merimon was the first depos-
itor.
For the past week or two, it has been I'M
usually dull about town, the farmers all
being so busy with their harvesting that
they haven't got time to come to town. The
wheat crop is reported better than any
since the war, and the starving country can
certainly stand the biggest dispensation in
the way of crop that is 4 mind to come
along just now. GOA.